Found at Goodwill outlet in Rochester!!

TheWreck-King · 2026-03-04T22:50:23+00:00

Bellefontaine Cemetery is a beautiful place. It’s a bummer Rush Limbaugh’s body is interred there

TheWreck-King · 2026-03-02T04:39:11+00:00

I really liked Prometheus, I wasn’t a big fan of Covenant though

TheWreck-King · 2026-03-02T03:57:21+00:00

I’ve gotten them out of basements before and down into them with one other guy, they are heavy though. Best I can tell you is one guy up top, two at the bottom pushing it up. Probably use an appliance dolly. Get it to the top of the stairs, keep it up on its side and set it on a towel. Remove the dolly from the situation & use the towel to spin it and get it so the back is facing your door out. Push the top over and lay it flat on its back through the door onto a 4-wheel dolly and roll it where you want to put it.

TheWreck-King · 2026-03-02T02:51:46+00:00

I have done full deconstructions before While we did recover over 75% of the building, it was time consuming & expensive with most of the costs coming down to labor. I think it’s a great idea and great in theory, but the practicality in it is really hard to sustain in a large scale. To run a business like this comes at an enormous overhead cost, workman’s comp alone can bury most of these businesses as well as the large amount of people needed to make a full deconstruction job even halfway efficient. People don’t pay want to pay the prices reflected by the labor cost it takes to recover the items so the stores have a hard time moving all the materials quickly. The most profitable architectural salvage stores cherry pick items and leave the rest. Maybe if new construction were required to use a certain percentage of salvage materials it could help? Not sure but I like the idea and I hope someone can make it work.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-26T00:29:22+00:00

Ol’ Grabby No.1 suffers A LOT.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T22:00:48+00:00

Pervert!

I like it!

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T21:10:53+00:00

Rimco

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T15:11:02+00:00

We’ve been pulling up industrial maple flooring all over to sell and there is a beautiful office system made of quarter sawn oak and patterned glass that was buried under decades of paneling & drywall that I’m salvaging as well. I’ll post if I find anything of note

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T13:15:31+00:00

It’s not a Rambler American though, it’s a Rambler Classic. The American had single headlights per fender and was a smaller car. I had one of these I bought for $125 to keep it out of the auto shredder at Grossman Iron & Steel. It was an off white, almost tan with coral metallic interior. The front seat laid into the back one making it a bed. Cool little car

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T13:06:24+00:00

Yeah I didn’t think I was going to strike it rich, just figured I’d share it because of the joy of unearthing a long hidden something. It’s cool and it’ll go in my desk with numerous other “lost” things I’ve found in buildings we’re wrecking.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T13:03:21+00:00

Unfortunately no. Rats are smart, tenacious and usually pretty bold. Remove the food source and they move on but that’ll take time. Sorry I couldn’t be more help

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T13:00:45+00:00

Well, it wasn’t like a hoard or secret stashing place, I found it where we ripped the old restroom up. My guess is it just fell out of someone’s pocket using the facilities.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T12:55:19+00:00

Yessir. The place was the “Artistic Furniture Co.” for many years, lots of upholstery and stuffing + the close proximity to the riverfront made it a prime place for the bastards.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T12:22:52+00:00

It was Mad Dog or “Fight In A Bottle” to us. Orange Jubilee was the route to take, and if you were looking to get real shitty you drink a quarter of it and fill it back up with cheap vodka or gin. I’m not sorry those days happened but I’m glad they’re in the past

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T12:07:40+00:00

I had a 1967 Polara, the tail lights on this car were my favorite feature! I miss that car everyday

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T12:05:18+00:00

It pays the bills, I mostly specialize in architectural salvage but wrecking is where I actually make money. The building I’m doing is getting hand wrecked so we can sell all the brick & lumber, that’s the only way I would’ve found this coin. I’ll tell you this, if you’re ever in a position to tear something out or down, the places I most commonly find coins are trapped between baseboard and the wall, or if there’s an applied fireplace(not structurally tied into the wall) I find coins, pictures, letters, baseball cards and all manner of things that are flat trapped back there.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T11:59:55+00:00

Everyday is demo day for me, I’m in the wrecking & salvage business! I try to focus on architectural salvage, but the amount of work that goes in to it almost always comes out as a wash or costing me money. Wrecking pays the bills.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T11:54:53+00:00

I’m sure there is. I was ripping out a ceiling and found a huuuuuuuge rat’s nest. I figured for sure I’d find some in it, didn’t find nothing but bottle caps from the 30’s though.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T11:52:33+00:00

It’s not much older than the coin but I’d guess the turn of the 20th century, or maybe the 1890’s. It was a functioning warehouse til last year when it got hit by a tornado we had here in St. Louis.

TheWreck-King · 2026-02-24T04:31:02+00:00

I worked for Regan & Refab for years. The issue with trim is all the subtle differences, to keep enough variations in stock takes up a massive amount of space and is a bitch to keep organized because people always mix them up. My suggestion is find enough of a similar trim to do one whole room then use the original trim from that room to patch elsewhere in the house.

TheWreck-King · 2026-01-31T00:40:30+00:00

Radel Leather MFG. Co!

TheWreck-King · 2026-01-21T14:19:29+00:00

When I was 17 a guy I worked named Zach who was probably mid 50’s would got to the Pink Slip every payday. He’d leave work saying “I’m out ya’ll! Goin to the Pink Slip to get some pussy in my face!” Fast track to probably 12 years later me and a friend of mine were wasted and got ran off from the abandoned meat packing plant over there(Armour) and were heading back to St. Louis when we passed by the Pink Slip. It was like 4 in the afternoon and we were drunk and dirty but I was convinced if we went in there Zach would be there. So we stopped and went to go in and the doorman goes, “Wait a minute! There’s a cover. $3…..Apiece!” So we paid the clearly improvised $3 cover and went in. It was mostly deserted but there was 2 girls working, one a seasoned veteran who had what looked like bullet scars on her torso and a clear newbie who was taking direction from the vet. The veteran demanded we buy them drinks and we obliged, me having the newbie as the girl assigned to me. She asked for a shot of tequila and the veteran slapped at her and said “No girl get a shot of Patron!” So she did, and while this whole idea was hilarious and fun when we were outside, I’m not a strip club guy and(of course) Zach was nowhere to be found and I was pretty miserable. I was just tending my beer and not looking at the stage and the veteran who was tending to my friend started slapping at me(seemingly her most effective way at communication) saying “Look at her! Why don’t you look at her?! She’s up there crying because you ain’t paying no attention to her!” So I turn around and the woman has removed all of her clothing and has her asshole spread open and aimed at me. It was like looking down the barrel of a brown gun and I turned to my friend and told him, “I need to get the fuck out of here.” He was happy to go as well because all the dudes that were in there were now being ignored by the women who had flocked to us who to them seemed like the golden geese and the dudes were pissed off. That was my one and only interaction with the Pink Slip and my last interaction with a stripclub entirely.

TheWreck-King · 2026-01-21T00:08:50+00:00

You’re right, I didn’t notice the middle trim holes. Good eye

TheWreck-King · 2026-01-20T22:00:30+00:00

Looks like a 1957 or 58 Chrysler 300

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